Improvement in bag-holders



J. H. HOLLIDGE.

Improvement in Bag-Holders.

No. 130,051, Patented 1uly30, 1872.

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UNITED, STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH H. HOLLIDGE, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR TOHIMSELF AND ISAAC S. HOLLIDGE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPRWOVE'MENT IN BAG-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,051, dated July 3Q,1872.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, JOSEPH H. HOLLIDGE,

of Washington, in the county of Washington and in the District ofColumbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBag-Holders; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part ofthis specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a bag-holder, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which myinventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in whichFigure 1 is a perspective view of my bag holder, showing the bag inposition. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the upper end of theholder'without the bag, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the same.

My bag-holder is composed of an upper rim, A, a lower rim, B, and barsor legs 0 0, connectin g the same together.

Heretofore bag-holders have generally been provided with hooks, teeth,or other similar devices, to hold the bag, which always, sooner orlater, will tear or otherwise injure the bag.

Where no hooks or teeth have been used there have been other devices toadjust which occupy so much time that there is nothing gained in usingthe same, the object of a bag-holder being to save both time and laborin filling.

My device is very simple and cheap, does not tear or in any way injurethe bag, and, by

' the use of the same, bags maybe filled very rapidly and with perfectease.

The upper rim A is made of plain hoop or band iron, in oval form andflaring, as shown inFig. 3-that is, the circumference of the rim at theupper edge is larger than at the lower edge. This rim is then, by legsor bars,

(3 0., connected with a' circular rim, B, which forms the foot of mybag-holder.

Although I prefer to use the device shown for supporting the upper rimA, still I do not desire to confine myself exclusively to the same, asthe essence of my invention lies in the plain flaring rim A, having nohooks, teeth, or other similar devices for holding the bag. The bag ispassed through the rim A, and the mouth of the same is turned outwardover and around said rim, which, being flaring, holds the bagsufiiciently firm, and prevents it from slipping 0d. The object ofmaking this rim of oval form is merely to facilitate the filling of thebag and to prevent the. grain, in being poured into the bag, fromfalling out at the sides.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a bag-holder, the flaring rim A, made of for the

